Fairleft

My "big fundamental" is that being _left_ means working for a more egalitarian, democratic society, but also for fairness, not ethnic or other kinds of favoritism. Because the left has turned away from fairness it is lost and unpopular. I'm a small voice hoping to push the left back toward its basics and its natural popularity.

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

'What religion tells you to occupy a country and kill its people?'

In that 'should be infamous' CBS 60 Minutes interrogation, near the end Scott Pelley, doing his best Abu Ghraib interrogator imitation, repeatedly and inanely badgers Ahmadinejad to say what he admires about Dear Leader Bush. Finally Ahmadinejad strikes back pretty f@#$kin brilliantly. Here's the transcript in case you missed it (emphasis added):


PELLEY: What trait do you admire in President Bush?


AHMADINEJAD: Again, I have a very frank tone. I think that President Bush needs to correct his ways.


PELLEY: What do you admire about him?


AHMADEINEJAD: He should respect the American people.


PELLEY: Is there anything? Any trait?
AHMADINEJAD: As an American citizen, tell me what trait do you admire?


PELLEY: Well, Mr. Bush is, without question, a very religious man, for example, as you are. I wonder if there's anything that you've seen in President Bush that you admire.


AHMADEINEJAD: Well, is Mr. Bush a religious man?


PELLEY: Very much so. As you are.


AHMADEINEJAD: What religion, please tell me, tells you as a follower of that religion to occupy another country and kill its people? Please tell me. Does Christianity tell its followers to do that? Judaism, for that matter? Islam, for that matter? What prophet tells you to send 160,000 troops to another country, kill men, women, and children?


You just can't wear your religion on your sleeve or just go to church. You should be truthfully religious. Religion tells us all that you should respect the property, the life of different people. Respect human rights. Love your fellow man.


And once you hear that a person has been killed, you should be saddened. You shouldn't sit in a room, a dark room, and hatch plots. And because of your plots, many thousands of people are killed.


Having said that, we respect the American people. And because of our respect for the American people, we respectfully talk with President Bush. We have a respectful tone.


But having said that, I don't think that that is a good definition of religion. Religion is love for your fellow man, brotherhood, telling the truth.


[Oh my gawd what will our boy Pelley say as a comeback to _that_?]


PELLEY : I take it you can't think of anything you like about President Bush.


AHMADEINEJAD [finally dismisses the stupid question]: Well, I'm not familiar with the gentleman's private life. ...


By the way, in case many of you aren't fully aware of Bush's planned criminality, the U.S. is planning "Full Spectrum" Mass Murder Against Iran. What we plan is reported here pretty clearly:

Study: US preparing 'massive' military attack against Iran. The neocons rationalize that just attacking Iran's supposed nuclear facilities will leave Iran too many options for counterattack. Besides the fact that the basic 'problem' for the neocons and Israel is that Iran is an economically powerful and united state. Here is an excerpt from the article:


The paper, "Considering a war with Iran: A discussion paper on WMD in the Middle East" - written by well-respected British scholar and arms expert Dr. Dan Plesch, Director of the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, and Martin Butcher, a former Director of the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) and former adviser to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament - was exclusively provided to RAW STORY late Friday under embargo.


"We wrote the report partly as we were surprised that this sort of quite elementary analysis had not been produced by the many well resourced Institutes in the United States," wrote Plesch in an email to Raw Story on Tuesday.


Plesch and Butcher examine "what the military option might involve if it were picked up off the table and put into action" and conclude that based on open source analysis and their own assessments, the US has prepared its military for a "massive" attack against Iran, requiring little contingency planning and without a ground invasion.


The study concludes that the US has made military preparations to destroy Iran's WMD, nuclear energy, regime, armed forces, state apparatus and economic infrastructure within days if not hours of President George W. Bush giving the order. The US is not publicising the scale of these preparations to deter Iran, tending to make confrontation more likely. The US retains the option of avoiding war, but using its forces as part of an overall strategy of shaping Iran's actions.


* Any attack is likely to be on a massive multi-front scale but avoiding a ground invasion. Attacks focused on WMD facilities would leave Iran too many retaliatory options, leave President Bush open to the charge of using too little force and leave the regime intact. ...


... Plesch and Butcher dispute conventional wisdom that any US attack on Iran would be confined to its nuclear sites. Instead, they foresee a "full-spectrum approach," designed to either instigate an overthrow of the government or reduce Iran to the status of "a weak or failed state."

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